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On The Fly
• While the national media is mourning the postseason performance of the Cubs, let's embrace the team formerly known as the Devil Rays. The Rays play in baseball's version of a butt-ugly building and the franchise did nothing to distinguish...Tags: Radio Industry, Major League Baseball, Jerry Manuel, Ichiro Suzuki, Jonathan Papelbon
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Sparks' Candace Parker will be named WNBA MVP
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterExpectations for a No. 1 overall draft pick often exceed reality. That's not the case for Sparks forward Candace Parker. She was better. Tonight, one day after accepting WNBA rookie of the year honors, Parker is expected to be named the league's most...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, National Basketball Association, Beijing Games, NCAA Tournament, Lisa Leslie
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Statistics don't do justice to Dodgers' Manny Ramirez and Angels' Mark Teixeira
For Manny Ramirez Manny Ramirez and Mark Teixeira, it's almost as if the first two-thirds of their 2008 seasons never happened. . . . Neither is listed among the National League or American League leaders even though the Dodgers' Ramirez and the Angels'...Tags: Qualcomm Inc., Major League Baseball, Brett Favre, Jose Canseco, Oakland Raiders
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Time’s working against Andy
johnette.howard@newsday.comAndy Roddick is only 26 years old. But at times, between launching some of the best wisecracks and serves on tour, the years and the psychic scars are starting to show. Much like Patrick Ewing or Wilt Chamberlain, who had the bad luck to come along...Tags: National Basketball Association, Patrick Ewing, Diseases, U.S. Open Tennis, Roger Federer
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Donaghy story reinforces NBA conspiracy theories
O, by the WayNo matter how this Lakers-Celtics NBA finals turns out, the forensic investigation by NBA observers undoubtedly will concentrate on the officiating. Granted, it makes zero sense that anyone in a striped shirt would do anything but call an absolutely...Tags: Fashion Trends, National Basketball Association, Brent Barry, Abraham Lincoln, Sacramento Kings
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Only race left for Phelps is against other sports legends
Sun reporterMichael Phelps has left us only with questions of history. He is master of his present. No one can argue otherwise now that he has won eight gold medals and swum better than any other human ever has at the Beijing Olympics. Competitors rarely bother to...Tags: Steffi Graf, Kobe Bryant, Beijing Games, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Phelps
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Is Michael Phelps the best athlete ever?
How weird is the Olympics? Six months ago, most of the country had only a vague idea who Michael Phelps is. And this morning, when I turned on National Public Radio, they were talking about whether Phelps is the best athlete ever.
That's right. These...Tags: National Basketball Association, Jesse Owens, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Cycling, Lance Armstrong
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Black sororities, frats provide personal, professional ties
247-4639During Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin's introduction at an April gathering of the 100 Black Men in Newport News, it was noted that the Denbigh High School and College of William and Mary graduate was a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity....Tags: Andrew Young, Hampton University, Christopher Newport University, National Basketball Association, National Government
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Hot Property: A $5.2-million cash offer for Avril Lavigne's Beverly Hills-area mansion
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe peerless, fearless Avril Lavigne has done what others only dream of: No, not the part about snagging eight Grammy nominations on your first album when you are still in your teens. Rather, it's the part where you list your Beverly Hills-area mansion...Tags: Property, Tony Danza, Avril Lavigne, Joely Fisher, Court Administration
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Adam Yauch's basketball jones
Special to The TimesTHROUGHOUT their innovative music career, the Beastie Boys -- Adam "MCA" Yauch, Michael "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz -- have rhymed about everything from angel dust to Abe Vigoda. As their fans know, one of their favorite subjects is...Tags: Physical Fitness, National Basketball Association, Julius Erving, Kobe Bryant, Film Festivals
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Which is the best Lakers team ever?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterShaq or Wilt? Kobe or Magic? The Showtime Lakers or the 33-wins-in-a-row Lakers? And what about George Mikan? Just which is the greatest Lakers team of all time? It's time to find out. The Times has asked an online sports simulation site to run a...Tags: Kobe Bryant, Mitch Richmond, A.C. Green, Horace Grant, Samaki Walker
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Rivalry between these cities is ice-cold
It's Pittsburgh-Philadelphia tonight in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Exciting stuff. Intrastate rivals. Let's get ready to rumbllle, right? OK, it's nothing like that. It's the NHL, where they canceled an entire season and nobody noticed. There's some buzz,...Tags: Major League Baseball, Bill Cosby, Super Bowl, Pittsburgh Steelers, Andrew Carnegie
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